Originally Posted by
Laker24
Eagle,
How could it not include the "pure NIC"? Are you saying the arbitrators will re-order the legal seniority list of US Airways? Will they also give the TWA pilots another shot?
The LAA list isn't in specific legal question for the arbitrators.
I have yet to see specific court direction IMO that the Nic is the "legal" senioirty list of US Airways pilots. I HAVE seen a ruling that says that USAPA cannot advoacte another list. Unless the arbitrators are required to consider the Nic a legal list as opposed to something that simply cannot be disregarded by either pre-merger US Airways committee, I can't see it as being "reordered", if it's not used (considered). To meet that standard, it would seem the court would have required the arbitrators to specifically recognize the Nic and work from that, but that hasn't occurred IMO.
HOWEVER, again the arbitrators could indeed use the pure Nic and then craft an integration with AA pilots that feathers differently to compensate LAA pilots for its use and also include fences and in that situation, the Nic and the LAA list would be in their pure states.